Just Jack Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 However with that being said I have 3 tvs down in the basement so I usually don't use all that extra stuff. Just 3? I used to house sit for a guy that had 5 TV's going in his living room on Sundays.
CodeMonkey Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 Just 3? I used to house sit for a guy that had 5 TV's going in his living room on Sundays. I cannot watch any game but the Bills anymore unless it is recorded and the commercials and halftime stripped out. After doing that a few times it is difficult now to even watch the Bills game live. Just too damn much dead time. I may well record the Bills games and watch them after the fact this season. Hmmm. Which means I could tailgate at the Ralph go home and watch the "cleaned up" game after. That could work.
Gordio Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 I cannot watch any game but the Bills anymore unless it is recorded and the commercials and halftime stripped out. After doing that a few times it is difficult now to even watch the Bills game live. Just too damn much dead time. I may well record the Bills games and watch them after the fact this season. Hmmm. Which means I could tailgate at the Ralph go home and watch the "cleaned up" game after. That could work. I take it you don't gamble? During the commercials I usually flip to another game although it is amazing how most of the games commercials are on at the same time. I always wanted to get one of those electronic score scroller ribbons that you see in the casinos/some sports bars and have it hooked up around the whole outer edge of the basement. I wonder how much one of those would cost?
CodeMonkey Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 I take it you don't gamble? During the commercials I usually flip to another game although it is amazing how most of the games commercials are on at the same time. I always wanted to get one of those electronic score scroller ribbons that you see in the casinos/some sports bars and have it hooked up around the whole outer edge of the basement. I wonder how much one of those would cost? No I don't bet on football games (much anyway). No fantasy football either. I suspect the hardware for your ribbon wouldn't cost too much. Getting a data feed for it might though. I imagine a program could be written fairly easily to get updated information from a website such as ESPN and have the computer hooked up to your scroller ribbon. That would make a nice man-cave addition
Clippers of Nfl Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 I just got Sunday Ticket Max for a grand total of $100. Enjoy paying full price sucker! I just got it for 49.99. 99.99-50 bill credit. Lol I was going to pay the full 200 too. But why? I called the "cancel" dept and told them some friend I know only paid 100 and I need to do better than that. As far as dt stinking... That's bull. I ended up talking football with the rep for 20+ minutes. Go figure! Ps. I'm a salesman, as a profession. So it's just waaaaayyyyy too easy. I could have asked for more. I'm 100% sure of that! But 50 is fair for them and me. (Did get it free last year though/Not a new customer) And your friend has to trust giving you full access over his DirecTV account... This is DirecTV's biggest issue -- the installers are not DirecTV employees, but rather subcontractors. How do you ensure that all of your subcontractors know what they're doing and act professionally? That's why if an installer sucks, you can call and usually get either free movie channels or a discount on your bill, but it still is frustrating. I've actually been lucky and never had an issue, but I have friends who have had lazy installers in the past. No really good solution to that problem though other than the customer service they already provide. As others have noted, the price is down to $199 this year. I suspect that they won't be giving any discounts off of that price either, but we'll see. They will Fez. Everyone just has to get past the "I feel sorry for Direct Tv" Call them and get your deal.
CodeMonkey Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 Good God. You guys keep calling and DTV will start paying you to get the ticket
Gordio Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 I just got it for 49.99. 99.99-50 bill credit. Lol I was going to pay the full 200 too. But why? I called the "cancel" dept and told them some friend I know only paid 100 and I need to do better than that. As far as dt stinking... That's bull. I ended up talking football with the rep for 20+ minutes. Go figure! Ps. I'm a salesman, as a profession. So it's just waaaaayyyyy too easy. I could have asked for more. I'm 100% sure of that! But 50 is fair for them and me. (Did get it free last year though/Not a new customer) They will Fez. Everyone just has to get past the "I feel sorry for Direct Tv" Call them and get your deal. Yeah I am definately calling back. I am going to give it another month & call them back around the 4th of July.
Clippers of Nfl Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 Last thing. Can this thread be about deals and not customer service. Anyone can have a bad experience with any company. New employees being the reason or whatever. But as a whole, Directv is very good. So what's your best deal? If you want to pay the whole $200. Express that too!
Stardawgs Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 I know its a little early, but i just got off the phone with Directv and there god awful customer service. Just wondering if there is way us out of towners can catch all the Bills games without DirectTv? Is there a reliable live stream that might be cheaper? The only reason I keep Directv is for the Sunday Ticket and would love to be able to cancel their service. You are crazy.. DirecTV has the BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE... try Time Warner or Dish.. see what happens
Turbosrrgood Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 (edited) I'm surprised people have negative things to say about DTV. Cable service is so far in a way inferior it's ridiculous. Plus DTV offers more channels, more HD, and far superior boxes to the cable competition. I switched to DTV after the awful quality and service of my cable company finally forced me to it. I will never look back, my experience with DTV has been pretty close to perfect. If anyone has used the awful software/hardware combination you get from Time Warner, using DTV is probably similar to walking through the white pearly gates of heaven.... Also, isn't the Sunday Ticket only $200 this year on DTV? As opposed to the ~$350 you pay for the streaming package. Edited May 30, 2012 by Turbosrrgood
HurlyBurly51 Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 Last thing. Can this thread be about deals and not customer service. Anyone can have a bad experience with any company. New employees being the reason or whatever. But as a whole, Directv is very good. So what's your best deal? If you want to pay the whole $200. Express that too! People should also make the distinction of getting the basic Sunday Ticket package versus the Sunday Ticket Max package. Basic is $199 and Max is $299. So regardless of peoples preferences on what's included in the two packages, getting basic at $100 is not quite the same deal as getting Max at $100. Therefore, basic folks I think should go for $50!
WellDressed Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 I just got Sunday Ticket Max for a grand total of $100. Enjoy paying full price sucker! Some folks might take a free HR34 and pay full price for their football. Some folks.
HurlyBurly51 Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 Why are you going to be a dick and call for a discount. Cheap Ass...... Some folks might take a free HR34 and pay full price for their football. Some folks. Contradict much? BTW, why limit yourself to one? I've got my HR34 and Sunday Ticket ready to go.
1B4IDie Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 I take it you don't gamble? During the commercials I usually flip to another game although it is amazing how most of the games commercials are on at the same time. I always wanted to get one of those electronic score scroller ribbons that you see in the casinos/some sports bars and have it hooked up around the whole outer edge of the basement. I wonder how much one of those would cost? NFL.com has a live ribbon, and the ribbon. When a team enters the red zone the box in the ribbon for that game changes to Red when the team is in the redzone. Just get an old computer and hook it to an old monitor and go to NFL.com. Viola you have your 2012 "scrolling Ribbon" just way more useful. Red Zone Channel is where its at, for 4:00 games when the Bills are over, or 1:00 games when the Bills are on at 4:00 or all day when the Bills have a Bye. I like what they do there, its working.
Clippers of Nfl Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 NFL.com has a live ribbon, and the ribbon. When a team enters the red zone the box in the ribbon for that game changes to Red when the team is in the redzone. Just get an old computer and hook it to an old monitor and go to NFL.com. Viola you have your 2012 "scrolling Ribbon" just way more useful. Red Zone Channel is where its at, for 4:00 games when the Bills are over, or 1:00 games when the Bills are on at 4:00 or all day when the Bills have a Bye. I like what they do there, its working. Red zone channel. Im glad you like it. I tuned once and had enough. Good God. You guys keep calling and DTV will start paying you to get the ticket I didnt want to boast yesterday. But I got $40 off my bill for 6 months too. Lol. People should also make the distinction of getting the basic Sunday Ticket package versus the Sunday Ticket Max package. Basic is $199 and Max is $299. So regardless of peoples preferences on what's included in the two packages, getting basic at $100 is not quite the same deal as getting Max at $100. Therefore, basic folks I think should go for $50! For me the max package is not worth it. I have internet on my phone. However, I dont want to see mario williams smash tom brady on his ass on my phone????? If you work on Sundays, I guess I could understand nfl to go.
CodeMonkey Posted June 1, 2012 Posted June 1, 2012 I'm surprised people have negative things to say about DTV. Cable service is so far in a way inferior it's ridiculous. Plus DTV offers more channels, more HD, and far superior boxes to the cable competition. This a million times over. I have had DTV, Dish and now have cable. This cable box is the worst POS ever. Slow hardware and very buggy software. The first few times I had problems and called tech support, their answer was to unplug the cable box for 5 min then plug it back in (then wait 10 minutes for it to reboot). Now I don't even call anymore. When it !@#$s up I just power cycle it. Complete crap.
Ed_Formerly_of_Roch Posted June 2, 2012 Posted June 2, 2012 So in the past ten years or so went from cable to DTV, got a HD TV, at the time DTV wouldn't give me any kind of a deal on an HD DVR so went back to cable. (Six months later or so they were giving away like today but stuck with TWC). Then moved from Western NY to Carolinas where still had TWC After four years got tired of the yearly fight with TWC over increase in cost,at about same time DTV finally had locals in HD for city I lived in so went back to DTV about two months ago. I have the five tunrer HD DVR, unit works very well, equipment is superior to cable. I changed DVR with TWC a couple of times, but all you're really doing is going from one used DVR to another used, new to you piece of equipment. As far as numbers of HD stations, I actually think I had more with cable. DTV has more when you include all the Sunday Ticket channels and all 32 HD MLB channels, but for basic programming, seemed to be more with TWC. Not complaining about selection, but do think cable had more. I also think cable did a better job of organizing their channels, for example all sports stations are grouped together. With DTV all the ESPN's , NFL, NHL etc are together in low 200's but NBC sports,( the old Versus) is in the 600's as are a few others. Maybe DTV needs to go back and re-organize their listing as too many changes and things get mixed up. I recall cable did this a couple years back. In general am very happy with DTV, do like that I can get Sunday Ticket, but do think there was more HD selection with cable
Taro T Posted June 2, 2012 Posted June 2, 2012 Syracuse has ALWAYS been included in the NFL blackout rule. What has changed is that the Utica/Rome area also has NBC, ABC, and FOX affiliates and those signals are receivable in eastern Syracuse, but when CBS took over the AFC broadcast rights the only CBS affiliate is located in Syracuse and so now the entire region is blocked out. The worst part of this is that the small piece of land that falls within the 75mi radius is a cow pasture without even a single house to receive the signal. So yes, do keep your billing address in the Albany area! The advice is correct, but the history is off slightly. Back when the games were shown on NBC, the games were NOT blacked out in the Syracuse market. So, if you lived in a place that got the Ra-cha-cha and Syracuse signals, you might be able to pick up 6 different games over the air if the Bills were blacked out locally. (3 non-Bills/non-Jints games from Ra-cha-cha stations, and Bills, Jints, and another random game from Syracuse.) When the networks changed, Syracuse and Baton Rouge both got caught in blackout zones that they previously avoided. Syracuse was included due to the small strip of land (7 houses and 1 closed restaurant IIRC) near a finger lake that was included in the southwestern corner of it's market which was alluded to above and fell within 75 miles of Rich Stadium. About 2 years later, that strip of land was deemed to now belong to the Ra-cha-cha market, but the NFL (Ralph Wilson, cough, cough) would not allow Syracuse to broadcast the Bills games. Most likely explanation for that being that Ralph was still upset that his suit against McGregor's for illegally showing the Bills game in Monroe County got thrown out when they could prove that they received the games legally using a 'rabbit ears' feed from Syracuse.
WellDressed Posted June 2, 2012 Posted June 2, 2012 Contradict much? They had nothing to do with each other. However, when someone offers you a gift, you don't ask for it to be wrapped.
NoName Posted June 2, 2012 Posted June 2, 2012 (edited) Sunday Ticket is also available on Bell Express Vu. Football To All Edited June 2, 2012 by NoName
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